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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Five children discover a beautiful golden bird that grants wishes--and a magic carpet that takes them wherever they want to go. They have many exciting adventures, like a trip to a South Sea island...and they find buried treasure!
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
By the time the velveteen rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real. When he turns to the skin horse for help, he begins to understand that one becomes a real person through human relationships that are loving, positive experiences.
Author
Series
Looking glass wars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil Aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a subatomic physics experiment causes a massive explosion, interdimensional gateways open in Florida--and aliens pour out. Some intend to bring Earth to its knees. Others seem willing to help, but will annihilate the planet if Navy SEAL Command Master Chief Robert Miller can't stop the menace from spreading.
Investigating a mammoth explosion that destroyed the University of Central Florida, physicist William Weaver and Navy SEAL Robert Miller...
7) Seeing Redd
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
When Alyss Heart returns to her rightful place on the throne of Wonderland, she is put to the test as enemies, both inside and outside the borders of her queendom, push their own agendas and wield horrific weapons, while she strives to unify them all.
Author
Series
Looking glass volume 4
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In the fourth Looking Glass novel, the "Vorpal Blade" is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the black box that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice, but what the "Vorpal Blade" finds is much more than its crew had bargained for.
Author
Series
Looking glass volume 3
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Alliance space ship Vorpal Blade goes back into action when news arrives that a gate colony has fallen to an unidentified alien invasion, heading out to find out what happened to the colony, rescue survivors, and uncover the attackers' identity.
10) Vorpal blade
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007.
Language
English
Description
LTC William Weaver, PhD. ("Call me Bill...") and SEAL Chief Adams, the heroes who saved Earth from alien menace in Into the Looking Glass, are back and this time Bill's got hisself a ship! The former SSBN Nebraska has been converted, using mostly shade-tree mechanics and baling wire, into a warp ship, Naval Construction Contract 4144, ready to go where no Adar, SEAL or academic has gone before! Yay for the heroes! But who cares for the poor Security...
11) ArchEnemy
Author
Series
Looking glass wars volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Virtuous Queen Alyss, who has lost the power of imagination, and her murderous Aunt Redd battle for control of Wonderland.
13) Storm glass
Author
Series
Glass volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowen understands trial by fire. Now it's time to test her mettle. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians.
15) In too deep
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The author introduces a brand new story arc that begins in a secluded coastal town in northern California. Scargill Cove is the perfect place for Fallon Jones, confirmed recluse and investigator of the paranormal. It is a hot spot, a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy, which might explain why the town attracts misfits and drifters like moths to a flame. Now someone else has been drawn to the Cove: Isabella Valdez, on the run...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz presents the first novel in an Arcane Society trilogy set in a secluded coastal town in Northern California—a mysterious place where danger and passion run deep...
Scargill Cove is the perfect place for Fallon Jones, confirmed recluse and investigator of the paranormal. It’s a hot spot, a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy, which might explain why...
Scargill Cove is the perfect place for Fallon Jones, confirmed recluse and investigator of the paranormal. It’s a hot spot, a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy, which might explain why...
17) Spy glass
Author
Series
Glass volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After siphoning her own blood magic in the showdown at Hubal, Opal Cowan can no longer create glass magic. More, she's immune to the effects of magic ... until the beautiful pieces of glass she makes flash in the presence of magic, and she discovers that someone has stolen some of her blood-- and that finding it might let her regain her powers ...
18) Canyons of night
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The island of Rainshadow is home to the mysterious, privately-owned woods known only as the Preserve. Now, after fifteen years away, both Charlotte Enright and her teen crush Slade Attridge have returned. Will their paranormal talents and Slade's dust bunny companion be enough to keep them from getting drawn into the darkness at the heart of the Preserve?"-- Cover verso.\
20) Ellis Island
Author
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An exploration of Ellis Island, which served as a gateway to thousands of immigrants, discussing its history and its importance as an American symbol.